The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>November 1
In Theatres
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Sundance 2024
Director:
Johan Grimonprez
About:
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the US dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
>November 1
In Theatres
LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH
Sundance 2024
Director:
Dawn Porter
About:
Luther Vandross started his career supporting David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, and more. His undeniable talent earned platinum records and accolades, but he struggled to break out beyond the R&B charts. Intensely driven, he overcame personal and professional challenges to secure his place amongst the greatest vocalists in history.
>November 1
In Theatres
AGENT OF HAPPINESS
Sundance 2024
Director:
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
About:
Amber is one of the many agents working for the Bhutanese government to measure people’s happiness levels among the remote Himalayan mountains. But will he find his own along the way?
>November 12
On DVD
FOOD AND COUNTRY
Sundance 2023
Director:
Laura Gabbert
About:
America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
>November 12
On VOD
LOOK INTO MY EYES
Sundance 2024
Director:
Lana Wilson
About:
A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing.
>November 22
In Theatres & On VOD
NEVER LOOK AWAY
Sundance 2024
Director:
Lucy Lawless
About:
New Zealand-born groundbreaking CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth risks it all to show the reality of war from inside the conflict, staring down danger and confronting those who perpetuate it.
>November 22
In Theatres
PORCELAIN WAR
Sundance 2024
Director:
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
About:
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
>November 29
On VOD: Jolt
GAUCHO GAUCHO
Sundance 2024
Directors:
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
About:
A celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as Gauchos, living beyond the boundaries of the modern world.
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